{"product_id":"envisioning-diplomacy-mayu-fujikawa-9780271099255","title":"Envisioning Diplomacy: Japanese Ambassadors in Early Modern Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Japan sent its first diplomatic delegations to visit the popes and dignitaries of Europe. European artists portrayed these historic ambassadors--the Tenshō embassy (1582-90) and the Keichō embassy (1613-20)--in numerous oil paintings, frescoes, drawings, and prints. \u003ci\u003eEnvisioning Diplomacy\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes these images--including newly discovered and lost works--within their cross-cultural and diplomatic contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on extensive and geographically expansive archival research, art historian Mayu Fujikawa investigates how the embassies were received and either assimilated or differentiated at European courts. She demonstrates how delegates' gifts to their hosts, their Europeanized kimonos, and the Western clothes they wore while traveling functioned as tools of soft diplomacy. Fujikawa also shows how printed materials functioned much as news does today, promoting the embassies widely and conveying information about the guests and their striking physical appearance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eEnvisioning Diplomacy\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fascinating look at the political, social, and cultural meanings of visual materials created around the embassies and should be of great interest to scholars, students, and general readers interested in early modern European art and history, costume history, diplomatic history, and Japanese and global studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mayu Fujikawa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271099259\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271099255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.94d","brand":"Mayu Fujikawa","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46880904544511,"sku":"9780271099255","price":99.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a3166c14-31ea-4c5f-a8b2-eeff32fb8bd6.jpg?v=1747970074","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/envisioning-diplomacy-mayu-fujikawa-9780271099255","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}